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If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by hades@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] philm@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Behold, Rust is blazingly fast in approaching the most popular language :)

Also, in comparison to Python you can do pretty much everything throughout the stack, which would be the reason I would go for Rust (not mentioning all the other niceties it has to offer).

Also learning Rust nowadays is much more approachable compared to say 7+ years back (ecosystem got way better)

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All of this is very true! But it's has to stack up against the large amount of experience with Python, both personally and in the industry. I have had to make decisions on project languages with an eye towards the abilities not just of myself, but of other people on my team. Fortunately, someone who knows Rust recently transferred onto my team, so we may do a project in Rust soon.

[–] philm@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

True, Python has a very big userbase and a lot of cool libraries and is nice to quickly hack something together.

Though the title of the post is

If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?

So TMU I want to predict the future in a way that it positively affects me, and find a language that fulfills this role best (throughout the stack, so that I'm not limited). And honestly I wouldn't want to touch Python with a long stick, if the project is moderately complex (and isn't easily off-loadable to native libraries that Python builds upon) and say > 5000 LOC, the super dynamic nature of python is a curse in this regard.